Aircraft Carriers: Kitty Hawk and Constellation, CV63 and CV64

I love looking at pictures of the Kitty Hawk!! How cool that you got to tour! In that first picture, if you look right above your head all the way up to that double row of windows ... I worked right in that corner on the bridge (the top row was the actual bridge, the second row was actually an area for the Task Force Command ... and was often not used at all) ... when I wasn't standing watch out on that roundish looking little deck right next to those windows.

are you sure that's the Kitty Hawk?? The number almost looks like 64 ... which would be the Constellation! Very similar ship in all respects ...

clif, I see it now...and I think you are right, it was the Constellation, not the Kitty Hawk. I was lucky enough to have been able to tour a couple of different aircraft carriers that came into the port of Pusan and I may have confused the two. I can still post these pictures if you want me to.

clif, the photo below I can verify was taken on board the Kitty Hawk as it was given to me, attached to the front of a thank you card with the inscription, "Thank you, Darrin for a wonderful day! Ray and Kay Turner, September 1994, Aboard the Kitty Hawk, Pusan, Korea". I had accompanied several members of the Chamber that day on a tour. The suit, tie, shirt combination I am wearing are truly cringe-worthy...I have grown up since then....

Also, I have created a thread specifically for pictures of the Constellation and the Kitty Hawk as we would have hijacked the "A Face Behind the Name" thread.

clif, here are the rest of the photos from the Constellation tour. I may or may not have more photos from the tour of the Kitty Hawk...I feel as if there are more but I think they are stashed in the trunk in our living room. At some point I will have to dig them out. For now I hope this gives you some opportunity to reminisce.

The other person's name is Willie but I forgot his last name...20 years ago after all. He was head of United Technologies in Korea at that time. They were making F-16s (I think) out in the Kimhae area, outside of Pusan.

This is a photo of a group of ROK military getting ready to tour the ship.

Another shot of all of us on the tour. Willie would have been taking the photo.

Gordon Lee, in the first photo at the top of the thread, center-left, there are a group of what look like 6 square windows. clif will probably be better able to answer but there are what look like white, flourescent light tubes strung together around these windows. They create the outline of the number 6 which is easier to see and you can see the angle of the number 4 to the right of the 6.